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Knight, Wolverines split weekend contests at ITA kick-off
The Michigan men’s tennis
team failed to qualify for the
ITA
National
Team
Indoor
Championship, despite a stellar
performance from their knight in
shining armor.
Senior Alex Knight that is,
with his shining armor being the
Michigan tennis gear he donned
in Chapel Hill, NC Saturday and
Sunday, where he upset North
Carolina’s No. 3-ranked William
Blumberg in a three set thriller,
6-4, 3-6, 6-1. But his efforts proved
to be insufficient against No. 3
North Carolina.
The No. 17 Wolverines (3-1)
split their ITA kick-off duals this
weekend, sweeping No. 20 South
Carolina
(5-1),
4-0,
Saturday
morning, before falling to the host
Tar Heels (5-0), 4-2, the following
afternoon.
Although the team failed to
reach their goal of qualifying for
the ITA National Team Indoor
Championship, they found a silver
lining in their performance.
“We got a win over a great
South Carolina team, and that’s a
win we definitely needed,” Knight
said.
Against
the
Gamecocks,
Michigan dictated the pace of
play, won with ease, and advanced
into the tournament’s finals. As
expected though, the next dual
against the Tar Heels proved to be
more difficult.
“We had an opportunity to
knock off the No. 3-ranked team
in the country and we came close,”
Knight said. “We beat a guy who
was up a break in the third and
we had a few other guys who had
some close matches so we built
some confidence and it showed
that we can play with anyone in
the country.”
And Knight showcased that
confidence
Sunday
against
Blumberg. After playing each
other neck-and-neck the first two
sets, Knight pulled away in the
final set by staying resilient and
sticking to his gameplan.
“I just kept playing my game
and looking for it,” Knight said. “I
had opportunities in the second
and I knew that if I kept on it I’d
have chances to win.”
Unfortunately
for
the
Wolverines, their other singles
players
didn’t
fare
as
well,
exemplified by senior No. 20
Runhao
Hua
falling
to
the
unranked
Benjamin
Sigouin
of North Carolina. Aside from
Knight, no other Michigan player
won a singles match.
A bright spot for the Wolverines
was their doubles play — thanks
again in part to Knight. He and
his partner, Hua, rolled to a 6-4
set victory on Sunday, and were
on the path to winning Saturday
before their match was cut short,
as their teammates had already
secured a doubles victory.
Michigan’s
chemistry
was
evident all weekend, as the
squad took the doubles point
in both duals. For the team, its
camaraderie is a result of its
behind the scenes work in the
preseason.
“This team has worked harder
than any team I’ve been on in my
five years here at Michigan, and
all the work we put in is showing,”
Knight said. “But we’re not there
yet. And the good thing is we
know that.”
And
following
the
singles
performance on Sunday in which
the Wolverines could only claim
one victory, they will be hard at
work preparing for the long season
ahead.
FILE PHOTO
Senior Alex Knight had a good weekend as Michigan split its ITA kick-off duals.
ADAM RICH
For the Daily
Michigan carries on tradition of Pink Game
On Thursday, the No. 13
Michigan women’s basketball
team will host Purdue in the
program’s annual “Pink Game.”
The Wolverines will wear
white jerseys with pink trim,
and the players and coaching
staff will sport pink shoes as
well. This annual tradition was
created to raise awareness for
breast cancer and celebrate
breast cancer survivors.
“That
was
something
that our marketing team, in
conjunction with our coaching
staff,
implemented
when
I
first got here six years ago,”
said
Michigan
coach
Kim
Barnes Arico to WTKA. “It’s a
wonderful, wonderful event.”
On Jan. 21, the Wolverines
met and had dinner with a
group of breast cancer survivors
to discuss the importance of
self-care and of being a health
advocate.
“We actually have about five
or six breast survivors every
year come in and meet with our
team and have dinner with our
team,” Barnes Arico said. “We
break up into groups and we get
to know them and we get to hear
their stories. I think that it’s a
great reminder to our players,
and to our staff and everyone
involved in our program, how
fortunate we are and how truly
blessed we are, but also that this
can happen to anyone.”
Michigan (8-2 Big Ten, 19-4
overall) is coming off a win on
Sunday against Northwestern,
and is in the midst of a six-game
winning streak. The victory
marked
the
third-longest
winning streak in program
history
and
Barnes
Arico’s
400th career win.
Barnes Arico attributes the
Wolverines’ great success this
season to the leadership of their
upperclassmen.
“I
think
it’s
our
senior
leadership
and
our
junior
class. Their maturity and their
experience is really shining
through
and
that’s
Jillian
Dunston and Katelynn Flaherty
but also Hallie Thome and
Nicole Munger,” Barnes Arico
said. “They are really on a
mission and they seem to play
for Michigan every game and
they don’t get caught up in the
opponent.
“We obviously are prepared
and we do our scouting and we
are ready for the opponent, but
it’s not about Northwestern or
Purdue or Michigan State, they
want to play the best Michigan
basketball that they can play.”
Purdue (5-3, 14-8) is coming
off a 88-73 win over Penn State
on Sunday.
While
the
Boilermakers
boast three double-digit scoring
players in Andreona Keys (13.8
ppg), Ae’Rianna Harris (13.0)
and Dominique Oden (11.8), this
trio of talented scorers will have
to deal with the Wolverines’
stingy
defense,
ranked
as
the conference’s second-best
scoring
defense.
Of
course,
Purdue isn’t so shabby either,
boasting the Big Ten’s third-
best scoring defense — possibly
hinting at a low-scoring slugfest.
“Purdue is a great program,”
Barnes Arico said. “They’re a
team that is year in and year out
a NCAA tournament team, they
have some great tradition and
some great history. They’re a
team that is improving as well.
“They’re playing with a lot
of confidence, they’re going to
come in here just a game behind
us in the standings. They will be
fired up, they will be excited for
the opportunity to come in here
and play us. It’s going to be a
great game on Thursday night.”
CLAIRE MEINGAST/Daily
Michigan coach KIm Barnes Arico and Michigan will play in the program’s annual Pink Game.
SARAH HURST
Daily Sports Writer
Marody, ‘M’ headed for climactic ending
The year was 1994, and the New
York Rangers unexpectedly trailed
their rival New Jersey Devils in
the NHL’s Eastern Conference
Finals, 3-2. Legendary center Mark
Messier netted three goals in the
third period to send the series to a
Game 7, and later to a Stanley Cup
victory.
What does this have to do with
Michigan hockey, you ask?
The Rangers were favored to
win that series after an incredible
regular season that saw them
streaking to the playoffs, yet found
themselves in dire straits with the
entire year in jeopardy.
The No. 20 Michigan hockey
team (7-9-2 Big Ten, 12-12-2
overall) aren’t in such a dissimilar
spot.
After two consecutive weekend
sweeps
against
now-No.12
Minnesota and No. 17 Penn State,
it seemed the only way for the
Wolverines to go was up.
Michigan
finally
found
its
starting goalkeeper in sophomore
Hayden Lavigne, who was putting
up monstrous numbers in front of
the net, and it appeared that the
front and back lines had finally
clicked as a cohesive unit on both
sides of the puck.
But the storyline has changed
following two straight losses to
then-No. 6 Ohio State, in which the
Wolverines were systematically
shut down.
Michigan
experienced
an
abysmal
weekend
due
to
a
lackluster power play, a defensive
effort that simply wasn’t good
enough and offensive stagnation.
“It’s obviously a bad feeling
when you get swept,” said junior
forward Cooper Marody. “I think
there some things that we liked
over the weekend, but Ohio State’s
an incredible team and if you make
one turnover, it’s gonna end up in
the back of your net. So I think it
was good for us to have that wake-
up call.”
But if Messier’s miracle can tell
us anything, it’s that anything can
happen, a fact the Wolverines are
well aware of.
“We still control our own
destiny,” said Michigan coach Mel
Pearson.
He added: “Never get too high
when you’re winning and you’re
on a roll, and never too low when
things don’t go your way. (And)
you need to because you don’t have
much time, we have to move on
and prepare for Wisconsin.”
In the Wolverines’ rout of
the Nittany Lions on Jan. 19,
freshman forward Jack Becker
scored twice, and junior forward
Brendan Warren added a tally as
well. Standout freshman forward
Josh Norris also added onto the
offensive effort with a goal.
The early Michigan offense
revolved around Marody and
seniors Tony Calderone and Dexter
Dancs. While the trio continues to
dominate statistically, the burden
now lies on the rest of the players
on the ice.
“It’s tough when people rely on
people to score goals and it’s easy
to think ‘Oh, they’re not playing
well because they’re not scoring,’
” Marody said. “But sometimes the
puck doesn’t go in the net and you’ll
have a game where you might not
earn the goals that you get, but you
have three points at the end of the
night.
“And some games you really
think you earned it and you worked
your butt off and had one of the
best games, but you had no points.
So that’s just how the game works.”
The Wolverines are clearly at
the crux of their season. As Marody
mentioned, all of Michigan’s lines
are grinding on the ice for goals.
Sophomore defenseman Luke
Martin, sophomore forward Jake
Slaker and freshman forward
Michael Pastujov all have the
potential to be strong point-
generators.
In Happy Valley, Michigan
saw what could happen when the
whole
team-offense
mentality
comes alive. After the Buckeyes,
there now just seems to be a
missing factor that will help the
Wolverines mine those extra
points from their non-headliner
players.
And if they do strike gold, they
just might have their Messier
moment.
KATELYN MULCAHY/Daily
Junior forward Cooper Marody and the Michigan hockey team were swept by No. 6 Ohio State this past weekend.
ROBERT HEFTER
Daily Sports Editor